Accelerator physics: Experiment reveals new options for synchrotron light sources
An international team has shown through a sensational experiment how diverse the possibilities for employing synchrotron light sources are.Credit: Tsinghua ...
Tag: Optics
Recent progress in heterogeneous III-V-on-silicon photonic integration
Credit: by Di Liang and John E. Bowers Integrated photonics was rejuvenated as Si starting challenging the dominant position of ...
Paul Alivisatos and Michael Grätzel win the Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences
The award has gone in this thirteenth edition to the two scientists who developed new nanomaterials with applications in solar ...
Green revolution in electronic displays expected to ease energy and health crises
Credit: by Yuyang Wang, Hui Nie, Jinsong Han, Yaxun An, Yu-Mo Zhang and Sean Xiao-An Zhang The development of low-energy-consumption ...
Fibre-integrated, high-repetition-rate water window soft X-ray source
Credit: by Gebhardt, M., Heuermann, T., Klas, R. et al. Bright, coherent soft X-ray radiation (SXR) is used in many ...
New sensor paves way to low-cost sensitive methane measurements
Recent advances could make it feasible to deploy networks of methane sensors to detect this greenhouse gas at large facilitiesCredit: ...
Low-loss single-mode hybrid-lattice hollow-core photonic crystal fiber
Credit: by Foued Amrani, Jonas H. Osório, Frédéric Delahaye, Fabio Giovanardi, Luca Vincetti, Benoît Debord, Frédéric Gérôme, Fetah Benabid... Recent ...
Optical frequency combs found a new dimension
Credit: EPFL/Alexey Tikan Periodic pulses of light forming a comb in the frequency domain are widely used for sensing and ...
Seeing stable topology using instabilities
Scientists decipher fingerprints of topological phases of light in nonlinear optical instabilitiesCredit: Institute for Basic Science We are most familiar ...
3D microscopy clarifies understanding of body’s immune response to obesity
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer. CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Researchers who focus on fat know that some adipose tissue is ...
Strathclyde physics professor wins international award for contribution to optics
Credit: Fraunhofer UK A Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Strathclyde has received a prestigious international ...
Highly efficient metasurface poised to improve communication and biosensing
Nanostructured thin film works over an unprecedented centimeter-scale areaCredit: Maiken H. Mikkelsen, Duke University WASHINGTON -- Researchers have created a ...
Capturing free-space optical light for high-speed wifi
Plasmonic speed enhancements previously constrained to nanoscale phenomena are replicated on macroscopic devicesCredit: Andrew Traverso, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. - ...
Vibrating 2D materials
Credit: (Photo: Susanne Pfarr / University of Würzburg) Current electronic components in computers, mobile phones and many other devices are ...